The Project Gutenberg eBook, Abigail Adams and Her Times, by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

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ABIGAIL ADAMS
AND HER TIMES


Books By Laura E. Richards

Abigail Adams and Her Times
Pippin
Elizabeth Fry
Florence Nightingale
Mrs. Tree
Mrs. Tree's Will
Miss Jimmy
The Wooing of Calvin Parks
Journals and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe
Two Noble Lives
Captain January
A Happy Little Time
When I Was Your Age
Five Minute Stories
In My Nursery
The Golden Windows
The Silver Crown
The Joyous Story of Toto
The Life of Julia Ward Howe
With Maud Howe Elliott, etc., etc.

Abigail Adams
From an original painting by Gilbert Stuart


ABIGAIL ADAMS
AND HER TIMES

BY
LAURA E. RICHARDS
AUTHOR OF "ELIZABETH FRY, THE ANGEL OF THE PRISONS,"
"FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, THE ANGEL OF THE
CRIMEA," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK LONDON
1917


Copyright, 1917, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America


TO
THE HONORED MEMORY OF
FRANKLIN BENJAMIN SANBORN
THE FRIEND OF MY PARENTS AND OF MY CHILDREN;
TO THREE GENERATIONS A FAITHFUL,
AFFECTIONATE, AND BELOVED
COUNSELLOR.